Six months in, the strikes are over. Ten days out, the holidays begin. As for the movies—unfortunately, the most exciting part of the year is already behind us. It’s disconcerting to realize that there is no unavoidably dazzling, must-see, pop cultural event film on the schedule for the rest of 2023. Certainly, some fine pictures,
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EXCLUSIVE: Cris Abrego, the longtime Banijay U.S. chief who recently set up his own production group with Eva Longoria, is expected to become the new boss of the TV Academy. Deadline understands Abrego is the frontrunner for the position. The election to name the next boss is set to be held next week but sources
The reclusive Kate Bush will not be in attendance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bush, who hasn’t toured since 1979, is set for induction along with Missy Elliott, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and the Spinners. The
Outfest has postponed its upcoming Legacy Awards ceremony to 2024 and pushed pause on all programming for the near term, also initiating “leaves” for the majority of its staff, citing the severe impact the recent “financial climate” has had on the organization. In a statement released on Thursday, the LGBTQIA+ org’s Board of Directors said
CNN, Vice, and the New York Times were among the big winners on the first of two nights for the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. CNN led the news portion of the Emmys with ten wins, with trailing Vice winning nine and the New York Times with five. Vice’s wins saw eight of
Hold on to your hats, country fans. The performers are set for the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards this month. Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini, Toby Keith, Wynonna Judd, Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Hardy, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown and show hosts Little Big Town will hit the stage to play their best-known hits at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. The
Shakira is set to receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 MTV VMAs. The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The “Te Felicito” singer is already a four-time VMAs winner and is nominated this year for four Moon Person trophies including Best Collaboration, Best Latin and Artist of
“The exciting thing about a mystery is that you do a lot of withholding, and in the withholding of information you’re actually drawing the audience closer,” says Only Murders in the Building cinematographer Chris Teague. “It’s that feeling of peering around a corner and seeing something for the first time.” Only Murders in the Building
“[Crowd work] has sort of been a staple thing in VFX for a long time, but I think one of the things that made our show sort of different was the volume and quantity of shots that needed to be done,” said Ted Lasso VFX compositing supervisor Bill Parker at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual
Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Katrina, there wasn’t a lot of archival footage of some of the more devastating moments that producers wanted to depict in Five Days of Memorial — like when the roof came off the Superdome and the 9th Ward flooding. So VFX Supervisor Eric Durst (Snowpiercer, Perry Mason) said his
“We kind of live in Candy Mountain on Foundation, because visual effects have such an important role in the show,” said VFX supervisor Chris MacLean at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen event. MacLean has been with the series for over four years, back when he was working on the first season. “When
Jeremy Allen White just scored his first Emmy nomination for playing chef Carmy Berzatto on FX’s The Bear, but most Chicagoans still recognize him as heartbreaker Lip Gallagher from Shameless. “When I walk around Chicago, when I’m filming The Bear, if I get stopped on the street…seven out of the 10 times, it’ll be for
It was a big win for the underdog on Wednesday as Freevee’s Jury Duty was nominated for four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Comedy Series, Supporting Actor for James Marsden, Writing for Mekki Leeper and Casting for Susie Farris. Although completely unexpected, the surprise was obviously welcome by executive producer David Bernad, who spoke to Deadline
Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Argentina and soon-to-be Inter Miami soccer star Lionel Messi took multiple trophies Wednesday at the 2023 ESPY Awards. Mahomes, who won the NFL MVP for a second time after leading the Chiefs past the Philadelphia Eagles in this year’s Super Bowl, was named Best Athlete, Men’s
Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance
While she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt‘s Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and cost Sunday night. “Oooh, this is a big conversation,” Friedman said when asked about the challenges of producing a show like Tom Stoppard’s multi-layered look at
Editor’s note: This interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel as a part of the event. “I think there’s a certain pace a noir allows, which at times can be an indulgent luxury,” says Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys of the 1930s-set HBO series from Team Downey.
The 2024 Critics Choice Awards will return to the CW, airing on Jan. 14, the network announced today as part of its 2023-24 schedule. Once again, the show will follow the Golden Globes, which have set a Jan. 7, 2024 date but no network yet. During the CW press conference Thursday morning in conjunction with
Kate Bush, who re-emerged in the public eye after ’80s song “Running Up That Hill” appeared on Stranger Things, and Willie Nelson, who just turned 90 last weekend, are now in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Among the other 2023 inductees announced by the Rock Hall today: Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael,
Victoria Grace, who plays Wendy Shin on Days of Our Lives, is withdrawing her nomination from the Daytime Emmys. Grace scored a nod in the Outstanding Younger Performer in a Daytime Drama Series category but was mistakenly submitted in the category. According to official rules for the Daytime Emmys, performers must be “no older than
In her relatively young career Bel Powley has accomplished a lot. Starting with her breakthrough film role in 2015’s Diary Of A Teenage Girl for which she won several awards, and continuing with significant roles in such films as White Boy Rick, Royal Night Out, and King Of Staten Island opposite Pete Davidson, she also
One unpredictable part of making any documentary about a person is showing them a cut. While the five documentary filmmakers taking part in the session “HBO Doc Panel: Portraits” as part of the Deadline FYC House + HBO Max screening and panel series had tackled a wide range of subjects with various approaches, they agreed
In adapting Accused for an American audience, showrunner and executive producer Howard Gordon saw an opportunity to explore the grey areas of the justice system. “The world has gotten so polarized and weaponized, and the show really was designed to sort of explore the messy middle, that we’re all kind of struggling to find —
For actors Evan Peters and Niecy Nash-Betts, as well as director Paris Barclay, the critical mission with Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was to shift the focus of the narrative around the serial killer away from Dahmer himself and toward his many victims, as well as the systemic racism and institutional failures of
Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback have been set to receive the Rising Stars of the Year Award at CinemaCon 2023. The Transformers: Rise of the Beasts duo will receive the recognition from NATO’s official convention at its Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony, which takes place at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas the
The upcoming contract talks between the WGA and the AMPTP were evidently in the ether during the WGA Awards on Sunday. That’s no surprise given the two events – in L.A. and New York – brought hundreds of writers together, two weeks before negotiations kick off. Meredith Stiehm, president of the WGA West, was most fervent onstage,
The American Society of Cinematographers is handing out its 37th annual ASC Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is posting the winners as they’re announced. See the list below. The Documentary trophy went to Ben Bernhard and Riju Das for HBO’s All That Breathes, and the night’s first prize went to Carl Herse for HBO’s Barry, which
The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. The ceremony, hosted by Hasan Minhaj, will be livestreamed on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and Twitter feed as well as on IMDb’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it on Deadline here.
“We’re doing this totally independent, we don’t even have a distributor,” Independent Spirit Awards host Hasan Minhaj said from the broadcast-less Santa Monica Beach tent Saturday afternoon. “The Independent Film Channel didn’t want the independent film awards!” Minhaj continued. “Take that in. IFC did not renew their contract. Let me reiterate how bad this is.
The Film Independent Spirit Awards selected A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once as its Best Feature on Saturday to culminate its 38th edition, one of seven wins for the metaverse-set pic that solidifies its frontrunner status in one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards. Everything, which had a leading eight nominations
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